Corn-harvester



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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE-h GRANT PENDLETON AND MOCLELLAN o. PENDLETON, on MOOOML, OHIO.

CORN-'HARVESTEFL,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,174, dated February 16, 1892.

Application filed June 16,1891. Serial No. 396,489. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GRANT PENDLETON and MGOLELLAN G. PENDLETON, both of Me- Comb, in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented a new and 'Improved Corn-Harvester, of which the following is a full, clear, and'exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in corn-harvesters; and the object of our invention is to produce a simple and efficient machine which will out two rows of corn-fodder at a time and will deliver the same in bundles at the sides of the machine.

To this end our invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig.3 is an inverted plan View. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4: 4C in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail View of the treadle mechanism for operating the side leaves, and Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of the lever mechanism for operating the clutch.

The machineis provided with a main frame 10, which is widened at its rear end and is connected with the side pieces 11 of the table on which the fodder is delivered, and these side pieces support the cross-bars 12, which are united at their outer ends by rods 13, and the cross-bars also support a central vertical frame 14, which divides the delivery-table into two parts. This frame 14 is provided near the bottom and on each side with an inclined shield 15, which causes the fodder to slide toward the sides of the machine, and the frame is steadied by a brace 16, which connects it with the frame 10, and on this brace is a seat 17, although the seat may be sup ported in any convenient way. On theouter sides of the table are the swinging leaves 18, which are pivoted to the rods 13, and which have supporting-ribs 19 on their under sides, the said ribs being mounted upon the rods 13 and having their inner free ends adapted to wheel.

rest upon the side pieces 11 of the table. The center ribs 19 of the leaves have depending links 20, which at their lower ends are secured to connecting-rods 20, and these extend inwardly beneath the machine and are secured at their inner' ends to opposite ends of a double crank 21, which is secured toa Vertical shaft 22, the latter terminating at its upper end in a crank 23, and ,a connecting- 6o rod 24 extends forward from, the crank and is secured at its forward end to a crank 25 on a'shaft 26, which is supported upon a portion of the frame 10, and extending upward from this shaft is a treadle-lever 27, which is aring-rods 20, and the leaves 18 will swing upa ward, as indicatedby dotted lines in Fig. 4, thus causing the fodder which is upon them to be thrown off on each side of the machine.

The machine is mounted on wheels 28 and 29, there being two of the wheels 28 on the rear end of the machine and one wheel 29 on the front end, the wheels being severally mounted in slotted boxes 30, which are adjusted vertically by means of the bolts 31,

and the frame may be therefore brought to any desired height. The wheel 29 is larger than the rear wheels and serves as a driving- It is secured to an axle 32 and is provided 011 one side with a sprocket-wheel 33,

which connects by means of a chain 34 with 8 a sprocket-wheel 35 on a clutch 36, which clutch is held to slide on a transverse shaft 37, mounted in the frame 10 in the rear of the axle 32. The clutch is adapted to engage the teeth on the hub of one of the gear-Wheels 38, 0

terminates in a laterally-extending crank 37 9 5 as shown in Fig. 2, which connects at its free end by means of a link 38 with a lever 39,

the lever being pivoted to a support 40 on the main frame 10 and extending to a point where it may be conveniently reached from the seat, too

so that by moving the lever the clutch may be made to slide on the shaft and to engage the gear-wheel or to he moved away from the same. Each gear-wheel 38- meshes with a gear-wheel 41, which turns horizontally on a bolt42, the said bolt being secured'to the under side of the main frame, and each bolt 42 carries a rotary cutter 43, and the cutters, being pivoted on opposite sides of the frame, will thus be adapted to out simultaneously two rows of fodder.

The following device is used for tightening the driving-chain 34, so that the parts will operate Without any lost motion. A common segmental rack 44 is secured to the upper side of the frame 10, and pivoted opposite the rack is a lever 45,having the usual catch thereon, which engages the rack, and this lever terminates at its lower end in a laterally-extendin g crank 46, which carries a roller 47, the said roller extending beneath the chain 34, and by moving the lever the roller may be forced up against the chain, thus tightening the same. At the extreme front end of the machine isa common form of draft-bar 48, to which a pair of shafts or other hauling device may be attached.

The operation of the machine is as follows: It is drawn. lengthwise of two rows of corni'odder, so that the cutters 43 will come opposite the stalks, and the clutch 36 is thrown by the lever mechanism above described sov that the gear-wheels will be turned and the cutters revolved, and consequently the cutters will sever the stalks as fast as they come in contact with them. As the stalks are out they fall backward upon the shields 15, and are thereby made to slide upon the leaves 18, and

when a sufficient number of stalks have acand depositing the stalks at the sides of the machine.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent A corn-harvester comprising the wheeled frame 10, having the transverse beams 12, central longitudinal oppositely-inclined shields 15 15 thereon, the rods 13, connecting the outer ends of the beams, the outward and upward swinging leaves 18, lying horizontally on the frame alongside of the lower edges of the shields and having transverse cleats or ribs 19 on their lower sides, pivoting near their outer ends on said rods and having depending arms 20, the rocking lever 21, connected at its ends with the said arms and having an operating-arm 23, the rod 24, connected with said arm, the operating-leverconnected with R. W. MGOARNEY, A. WINELAND. 

